37 Instant Moneymaking Part-Time Jobs

You're on the road to success - Congratulations! You boughtthis report because you want information on starting a business,part-time at first, without investing a lot of money, yet onethat will quickly be a money-maker. You'll find a number ofthem here.

In each one we give the basic concept of the business, whatproduct or service it provides to your customers, and how it isoperated, and (if any are necessary) what equipment orfacilities or help will be needed.

But whatever business you choose, remember that no business cansucceed without your effort. remember that determination andhard work are the mother and father of success. If you supplythose, and use the information we supply, you can't miss. Goodluck!

1. Television Computer Pictures

Lease a computer printer and a video camera and a monitorscreen that produces large-size, high contrast portraits ofcustomers in 30 seconds, while they wait. You will find this asure-fire crowd attracter, as the printer chatters away. Set upin a crowded resort are. Charge at least $4 a picture, framedin a simple mat, almost all of which is gross profit. Net costof all materials, about 8 cents.

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2. Badge-Making

Rent a small multilith printing machine and a badge sealingmachine, and using self-adhesive Presstype for typesetting,design and set cut sayings for the badges. Sell as a customservice, making slogans to order, or make a wide range offar-out sayings in bulk quantities and sell them to local giftand novelty shops for resale.

3. Run a "Consignment Shop"

It requires very little capital and accepts goods for sale frommembers of the public and sells these items for them on acommission basis. You might try a wide variety of items atfirst, to see what sells best and most regularly.

4. Picture Framing, In Your Own Home

Relatively inexpensive materials with a good sense of color andstyle and a reasonable ability with carpentry tools, will builda large custom-framing business, since people who spend money onart won't skimp on the frames either, if they want agood-looking result.

5. Rental Equipment

Be the source of supplies for do-it-yourselfers. Working onlySaturdays and Sundays, when they do, you rent out power tools,such as circular saws, jigsaws, reciprocating saws, gasolinechain saws, electric drills, electric planers, belt and orbitalsanders, routers, paint sprayers, wallpaper-removal steamers,staple guns, pumps, home cleaning machines, Roto-tillers, andother equipment for daily fees. Operate out of your garage.

6. Talent Bureau, For Kid's or Adults' Parties

Using local ads, or your own contacts, line up 10 to 20 localentertainers, magicians, comics, puppeteers and other talents,and supply them for parties, club meetings and other functions. Have a list of films you can also supply for the same, or othergroups, which they can project themselves, if they wish, or youwill supply an operator.

7. Throwing Parties for Profit

Everyone loves to go to a party, and nowadays some smartoperators make a mint running them for everybody who wants toattend. You can too! Hire a hall and a band, plan to set up abar (if you can get a temporary liquor permit), and promote thehell out of it with ads, handbills, bumper stickers andlamp-post posters. Special parties aimed at a particular groupdo best, such as singles, or under-thirties, or over-forties. This idea is especially good in college towns.

8. Start a Hobby Center

Make money on your unused space (and maybe the power toolsyou've already paid for!) Turn your basement into a woodworkingcenter, your spare bedroom into a photo darkroom, and yourgarage into a pottery workshop with a wheel and a small kiln. Rent the space and equipment by the hour, expand into morehobbies as time and money permit, and charge additional fees forinstruction in any of those fields you're good at.

9. Organize a Babysitting Service

One of the troubles most people find is that their babysitter isalways busy just the night they want to go out. You set up aservice, finding good reliable teenage girls and boys,middle-aged or older women, and act as a go-between, providingsitters whenever your customers want them, collecting the fees,and paying the sitters. Advertise your service, and handbillshouse-to-house locally being a good way.

10. Make Money From Your Hobbies

Are you an expert at something that you do at home for fun? Then make it pay off for you! If you're a gourmet cook, givecooking lessons in the haut cuisine. If you're an accomplishedpainter in oils or water-color, offer a portrait-paintingservice. If you're a skilled carpenter, design and make customcabinets to order. Almost any hobby you're good at can beturned to making a profit if you think about it carefully, anddecide who could use your expertise - as a consultant in thatfield, if nothing else. All you really have to do to getstarted is to place an ad!

11. Publish a Buy/Swap Paper in Your Town

Get money from both ends in this sweetheart deal. Publish theweekly paper with classified ads from the public offering stufffor sale, arranged according to category, and charge the peoplefor their ads (some operators let them pay only if and when theysell, but in that case charge them a percentage of the sellingprice, 5% for smaller items, 2% or 3% for automobiles), and thensell the newspaper (suggest price is 25 cents) as well, throughlocal newsstands and by subscription (in the mail). Once youhave a fairly decent circulation, local merchants will also payyou for display ads, because they know people really read buyand swap newspapers religiously cover-to-cover.

12. Do Custom Photo Developing

Quality is essential, and speed is generally also required,although you can charge a premium for rush service. If youalready have an elaborate dark-room set-up in your home, so muchthe better, but if not it can be fitted in anywhere you haveroom, the basement being ideal, since windows are not arequirement. You must be able not only to develop and printevery normal size of film from 35 mm to 8" x 10" but handleenlargements up to a minimum of 30" x 40", and preferably 5" 8*"or more, and do copying both of opaque material and slides. Anability to offer retouching, restoration and coloring as well ishelpful, even if you have to send that specialized work out.

13. Publish a Part-Time Jobs Directory

Make this a newsstand book, as well as offering it, with smallads, by mail order. List all the possible jobs people can getpart-time, especially angling it at college kids on vacation,teachers after school hours, housewives with time on theirhands, and moonlighters looking for part-time second jobs.

14. Run a Children's "Explorer Club"

Take kids on Saturday and Sunday outings. Ten kids each day,to zoos, farms, theaters, children's shows and sports events. Asmall micro-bus (rented and, or eventually bought) can be usedto travel in. Many parents are delighted to have weekend daysto themselves, even though it costs them some dough.

You buy or (at first) rent, a heavy-duty machine, and do thecleaning and waxing of fine, hardwood floors. If the floors arein very bad condition, machine sand them and them completelyrefinish them with modern super-durable polyurethane finishes.

17. Operate a Children's Hotel

This is sort of a "boarding house" for kids while their parentgo away for a week-end or two-week vacation. Requires a largehouse, and preferably, a large yard or grounds, swings, slides,and facilities useful for kids. Must be done very responsiblyand carefully. Also, don't take very young children (less than9 or 10 say) because they may require too much dressing,feeding, etc.

18. Start a Mail-Order Business

Write a booklet about something people really want to knowabout, print a few hundred copies, and place some small ads. You'd be surprised how much money you can make. Sell moderncopies of out-of-print uncopyrighted material or books. Or sellsomething unusual you make at home, providing that it issomething really useful to your prospective customers. Or sellsome of your ideas such as #2 badges, #37 genealogy, and others.

19. Operate a Xerox Copy Center

The secret of this is not just selling one or two copies of eachoriginal (although on a 300-page original manuscript, that canadd up too), but using one of the latest high-speed high-qualitymass-production Xeroxes so that you can compete with the guysoperating those quick printing services, by turning out 100 or200 resumes, letters, or circulars just as fast, and probably agreat deal faster, for the same (or potentially less if you wantto be competitive) money as they charge. This way you have twokinds of work, giving you twice as many customers, and twice theprofit opportunity, and with the right location, a chance toclean up.

If you want to offer even more services, and have the space inyour shop, as well as the potential customers, you can offerXerox reductions (New York Times-size page down to 8-1/2"x11",and Xerox copies in full-color, which are remarkably good. Thecolor machine will also make color copies directly from 35 mm.color slides in one quick step.

Of course, you can consider using other brands of xerographiccopiers, such as IBM, Kodak, Savin, Canon, Minolta or others,but although you may theoretically save money, make sure oftheir service policies, and that they have field servicemen inyour locality, or you may find yourself stuck with a copier onthe fritz for a week, which could ruin your business.

20. Be a Local News Correspondent

For big city papers some distance from your town. When an eventoccurs in your area you write the story for those papers (theyhave correspondents in many big places but not in most smalltowns or isolated areas) and they pay you for it. This is knownas being a "stringer". If you're good with a camera, takephotos to accompany the story.

21. Campground Store-On-Wheels

Use either a panel truck or a camper body on a pick-up truckchassis. Go to public park areas and campgrounds sellingcharcoal, paper plates, water-melon, ice cream, eggs, milk,bread, insect repellent, sunglasses, newspapers, etc.

22. Create a New Tour-Bus Service

Even in affluent America, not everyone has a car, and even thosewho do often prefer to leave long trips to a professional busdriver. and although there are bus tours offered to somefamiliar places, there are still so many interesting, evenexciting, places people would like to go to, if they wereoffered the chance. Here's where you come in. You must becreative about it, and study all the six-State areas around yourhometown, to discover some original and different places totravel to on day trips which will "turn on" your prospectivecustomers, and get them to sign up.

The rest is easy. You get competitive quotes (from commercialbus companies) for a quality bus to do the round-trip, with asuitable stopover at the destination point (enough to do thesights, shop and maybe eat as well). Then you figure you tourprice per person so you can make a profit even if the bus isonly half full or so. Then you have a safety margin - and ifyou sell every seat you will do very well indeed.

Then all you have to do is sell. You put little ads in yourlocal papers, paste up flyers wherever you can (supermarkets aregood), contact local travel agents (of course you give them apercentage on what they sell for you), local hotel clerks, etc.,and you also contact women's clubs, religious groups, fraternalsocieties, factory social organizations, and so on (they maytake a whole bus, or even two, and you give them a specialprice, naturally).

23. Run a Pet Hotel Service

For dogs or cats or both. People will pay high fees to ensurehigh-quality care fo the animal they love. Separate kennels foreach animal are essential. Good food and adequate care andattention must be assured also. You can hire responsibleteenagers to help you. Advertise with posters in pet shops,veterinarians' offices; and if they're cheaply available, getthe mailing lists of local ASPCA groups and other animal welfaregroups, as well as membership lists of dog and cat clubs.

24. Sell Second-hand Kids Clothing

Children usually outgrow their clothes rather than wearing themout. So many families have such clothing left around. Youcollect it, paying nothing or as little as possible. Then youresell it; you can do the selling by ads, handbills or throughyour church or community groups.

25. Breed Tropical Fish

This requires only a moderate amount of space and a smallinvestment in equipment. Properly done, it needs only a smallamount of your time yet can make you a good profit. You canobtain your beginning stock from the large wholesale dealers. You can sell direct to consumers (the hobbyists) or to stores inyour area.

All you need is a simple-to-operate machine that engraveslettering in various types onto sheets of plastic of manycolors, finishes and sizes. Perfect for signs for merchants,banks, doctors, dentists, schools and colleges, private frontdoors, and many other uses.

Seasonal, but if you have the time in the few weeks beforeChristmas, can be a good money maker. Find a vacant storefrontor lot, or space inside a larger building, where people pass by.But be sure to order a supply of trees enough in advance. Andif you own country land that is not being used, consider growingthe trees yourself. Your first crop can be ready in four years,with steady crops from then on.

28. Open a Rubber Stamp Business

Manufacture them in your basement. The materials needed arecheap. And the finished stamps can be sold to many people,storeowners, offices, individuals. You can market them by mailand through local merchants.

Each customer is sold a special tag to put on his or her keyring. It says "Drop in any mailbox" and has the address of apost office box that you rent (Don't use your home address forthe same reason your customers shouldn't have their home addresson their keys - dishonest people finding the keys will comeprowling around). You assign each customer's tag a code numberfrom a list that you keep. When someone's keys arrive at yourpost office box, you return them to him, for another fee.

31. Be a Used Car Buying Consultant

With a knowledge of cars, plus the proper test equipment (forchecking the engine, transmission, brakes, font-end alignment,and chassis), you go with your customer to check out the usedcar he is thinking of buying. Advertise your service next tothe ads offering used cars for sale. After a while you will getto know people in this field and you can pick up more money byacting as a middleman in sales between private individuals.

32. Sell "Loss Leaders" for Profit

This may sound contradictory but it isn't. Supermarkets aren'tthe only ones who use loss leaders. A good mail-order idea isoffering a cute item (worth much more) for $1 in women'smagazines, giving prompt delivery and including with it stuffers(ads with order blanks) for half a dozen more expensive items. The repeat business on the other items makes the $1 offerprofitable.

33. Baby Items Rental Service

You rent everything needed for a baby's care - stroller,playpen, high chair, etc. When the customer's baby outgrowsthem you rent to the next couple. Of course, you mustadvertise, and also send direct mail pieces to all couples withnew births (get their names from hospitals and newspapers andlist brokers).

34. Operate a "Give a Party" Service

You rent out everything needed for a party: tables, chairs,punch bowls, table cloths, cutlery, and napkins. You can alsosupply waitresses and bartenders, finding them through agenciesthat supply temporary help such as Manpower. But if you canfind good workers yourself, you can save the agency fee and makemore money.

35. Operate a Miniature Slot Car Racing Track

In your basement (or wherever you can fit it) build a large andelaborate miniature slot car racing track (with a least 6 or 8slots). Local kids, and often adults, pay you by the hour torace, using either your cars or theirs. To boost interest youcan hold monthly contests with trophies.

36. All-Service Service

You line up the specialists in fixing almost anything, and takecare of getting them customers by delivering handbills to homesand placing ads in supermarkets and local papers. They pay you5% of every job refer to them, which can soon add up.

37. Genealogy for People Who Want Roots

You seek out the records in public or university libraries,county courthouses and elsewhere, as necessary, for a slidingfee, depending on the size of family, difficulties in gettinginformation, geographic dispersion, and other factors.